https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/heat-pumps-heat-pumps-heat-pumps
"Heat pumps are magical. You can fold up a heat pump and put it in your pocket
and it’ll bring good luck. Heat pumps can stop a horde of charging triceratops,
or propel starships to 0.996 times the speed of light. Heat pumps cure
generalized anxiety disorder, malaria, and bird flu. A heat pump contains a
gateway into a pocket dimension where you can hide from evil wizards. Heat
pumps can only be made with a special kind of diamond found only in meteorites
from outside our solar system. Heat pumps will be your best friend.
OK, well, none of that is true. But heat pumps are a very useful and
underappreciated technology, and it’s kind of hard to get people excited about
them.
Since I started I’ve been writing a series of posts about important physical
(“atoms”) technologies that will transform our physical environment — solar
power for cheap electricity, batteries for power storage and energy
portability, battery-powered appliances, green hydrogen, and so on. I plan to
write about drones, space stuff, robots, and a bunch of others. But since my
first four posts were all about climate-and-energy-related stuff, I thought I’d
write about the one last technology in this category that everyone seems
excited about — the humble heat pump."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-inequality-aids-south-africa-tortoises-galapagos/>
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
